Announcement

DBIM German Backgammon-Internet-Championship 2014

!!! Please notice, that this tournament is a pure national championship.
The english version is for information only !!!

Participation
To participate in the tournament the german citizenship - regardless of location - is provided. Players with other nationalities may participate, if their center of life is Germany and they give up to start in national championships in other countrys participating WBIF. The number of participants per class is limited to 256. If there are more than 256 registered participants, the participants will be selected by order of registration. Registration is possible from now until 28.01.2014 via the registration form on this website.

Classes
The tourney is open for participants of all classes.

Where to play
In general the matches have to be played at GridGammon. Participants without an account at GridGammon may ask for registration with GridGammon at support@gridgammon.com making reference to the participation in this WBIF tournament.

Mode
The tournament will be played in the Swiss system with 16 rounds. In case of equal wins will decide: 1. Buchholz rating, 2. Sonneborn-Berger rating. All pairings are played to 11 points. At the beginning of each month 2 matches will be drawn. The matches have to be played simultaneous. (Exception: July and August will be merged as one month).

Shedule
The tournament will start at 01.02.2014 and end at 30.10.2014. Each 2 simultaneous matches should be played within 4 weeks, in the months July / August within 8 weeks.

Questions
Please send your questions via e-mail to the tournament direction.